The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1887-08-11
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and tie fireless hearth, and the black
winged angel shrieked: s'Ahal | have
won the day." Says some man: Il be-
lieve what you say; it is right and Chris
tan, and mean sometime to attend to
this matter My friend, you are going
to lose the comfort of your household
in the same way the sinner loses
heaven, by procrastination. I see. all
around me the destitute and suffering
families of parents who meant some day
to attend to this Christian duty. During
the process Of adjournment the man gets
his feet wet, then comes chill and de-
hrium and the doleful shake OF the doc
tors head, and tie obsequies. If there
be anything more pitiabie than woman
delieately brought up and on her mar
riage day by an indulgent parent given
to a man to whom she is the chief JOY
and pride of life until the moment of his
death, and then that same woman going
out with helpless children at her back to
struggle for bread III a world where
brawny muscle and rugged soul are
necessary say, if there be anything
more pitiable than that, l do not know
what it is. And yet there are good
women who are Indifferent in regard TO
their husbands duty in this respect; and
there are those positively hostile, as
though life insurance subjected a man
to some fatality. There is in Brooklyn
today very poor woman keeping a
small candy shop who vehemently op-
posed the insurance of her husbands
life, and when application had been made
for a policy of $4,000 she frustrated it.
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house that implied it was possible for. her
husband ever to die. One day, in quick
revolution of machinery, his life was in
stantly dashed out. What is the sequel?
Sheis, withannoying tug, making the half
of miserable living. Her two children
have been taken away from her in order
that they may be clothed and sehooled.
and her tife is to be prolonged hard
ship. O, man, before forty-eight hours
have passed away, appear at the desk of
some Of our great, life insurance COM
panies, have the stethescope of the physi-
cian put TO your heart and lungs, and by
the seal Of some honest company decree
that your children shall not be subjected
to the humiliation of financial struggle in
the days of your demise.
bub lluSb DISK tlle IlSIl 6ISdSeQ III
life insurance business whether they feel
the importance of their trust, and charge
them | must that they need divine grace
to help them in their work. In this day,
when there are so many rivalries in your
line Of business, you will be tempted to
overState the amount of assets and tI.-
extent of the surnl..1s ,l-.s, and you will be
! vempted to abuse the franchise of the COM
pany, and make up the deficits of one
year by adding some of the receipts Of
another year: and you will be tempted to
send out mean, anonymous circulars
| derogatory to other companies, forgetful
of the fact that anonymous conmunica-
| ton means only two things: the coward
! ice of the author, and the inefficiency Of
the police in allowing such thing to be
dated anywhere save inside of a peni-
| tentiary. Under the mighty pressure
many have gone down, and you viii fol-
! low them if you have too much conf
/ dence in yourself, and do not appeal to
! the Lord for positive help. But if any Of
| YOU belong to that miscreant class of peo-
pie who, without any financial ability,
! organize themselves into what they call
| life insurance company, with pre-
| tended capital of 100000 or $500, 600,
| then vote yourself into the lucrative
/ position, and then take all the premiums
! for yourself, and then, at the approach
Of the state superintendent, drop all into
| the hands of those life insurance under
| takers whose business it is to gather up
the remains of defunet organizations and
| bury them in their own Tault-then,
say, you had better get out of the busi-
ness, and disgorge the widows houses
| you have swallowed. But my word is to
all those who are legitimately engaged in
the business: You ought to be better than
other men, not only because Of the re-
| sponsibilities that rest upon you, but be-
cause the truth is ever confronting you
that your stay on earth is uncertain and
| your life a matter of few days or years.
| Do not those black edged letters that
come into your office make you think?
Does not the doctors certificate on the
death claim give you thrill? Your
periodicals, your advertisements and
even the Gthography of your policies
warn you that you are mortal. According
to your own showing the chances that
! you viii die this year are at least 2 per
cent. Are you prepared for the tremen-
dous exigeney? The most condemned
man in the Judgment day will be the I'M
prepared life insurance man, for the SIM
pie reason that his whole business was
connected with human exit, and he can
| not say: II did not think" His whole
business was to think on that one thing.
Oh, my brother, get insured for eternity,
| In consideration of what Christ has done
in your behalf have the indenture this
day made out, signed and sealed with the
red seal of the cross,
But [ have words of encouragement
and comfort for those of my hearers who
are engaged in the fire insurance business,
You are ordained by Ged to stand be-
tween us and the most raging element OF
nature. We are indebted to you for what
the National Board of Underwriters and
the convention of chiefs of the fire de-
partment have effected through you
suggestions, and through your enoour.
agement. We are indebted to you lOl
what you have effected in the construc.
ton of buildings, and in the change il
the habits Of our cities; SO that by scien-
tific principles orderly companies extin-
guish the fire, instead Of the old time
riots which used to extinguish the citi
zens And we are indebted to you fol
the successful demands you have made
for the repeal OF unjust laws-for the
battle you have waged against incendiar
ism and arson-for the fatal blow yor
have given to the theory that corporations
have no souls, by the cheerfulness ant
promptitude with which you have me
losses, from which you might have es
capped through the technicality of til,
law. do not know any class Of men il
our midst more high toned and worthy
of confidence than these men, and yet
have sometimes feared that while you
chief business is to calculate about losses OF
earthly property, you might without sutfi
cient thought go into that which, in regar(
to your soul, in your own parlance nigh
be called ''hazards, :" ''extra hazards,
especial hazards" An unforgiven Sill
in the soul is more infammable and ex
plosive than camphene or nitroglycerine
However the rates may be-yea, thougl